Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.

Wept o'er his wounds, or tales of sorrow done, Shoulder'd his crutch, and shew'd how fields were won.

Whatever mitigates the woes, or increases the happiness of others, is a just criterion of goodness; and whatever injures society at large, or any individual in it, is a criterion of iniquity.

Prudery is ignorance.

People seldom improve when they have no other model but themselves to copy.

One man is born with a silver spoon in his mouth, and the other with a wooden ladle.

I have seen her and sister cry over a book for an hour together, and they said, they liked the book the better the more it made them cry.